Elongated-member-driving apparatus – With means to move or guide member into driving position – Including supply magazine for constantly urged members
Patent
1974-10-18
1976-04-13
Custer, Jr., Granville Y.
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
With means to move or guide member into driving position
Including supply magazine for constantly urged members
227 19, B25C 502
Patent
active
039499243
ABSTRACT:
A surgical stapling instrument for applying sterilized staples to the disunited skin or fascia of a patient in order to effect a joining of the skin or fascia. The instrument is adapted to associate with a staple-carrying cartridge having a plurality of staples therein. The instrument is manually powered and includes an impact mechanism for forming the staples. A nose portion is rotatably mounted in a hand-held main body portion and adapted to mount the staple-carrying cartridge so that the stapling angle can be varied without rotating the hand-held portion of the stapler. A clutch means is provided for ensuring that the staple-advancing drive means of the instrument is only activated once per stapling operation.
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patent: 2137642 (1938-11-01), Cavanagh
patent: 2320568 (1943-06-01), Cavanagh
patent: 2765463 (1956-10-01), DeAnguera
patent: 3819100 (1974-06-01), Noiles et al.
Custer, Jr. Granville Y.
United States Surgical Corporation
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